[Quantumman]

A couple of thoughts about these numbers being used in competition:
1) Civilian GPS is only accurate to ~15 feet and it doesn't doesn't work very well indoors
2) To measure a position that accurate is nearly impossible because even assuming those numbers are in meters, you would lose most of the precision to the play of the gears.
3) The IR board cannot be given numbers, you can only give it a signal from a remote(or other ir device) and have it associate that with a specific output(4 total)

As for the exact nature of the numbers I think that the full precision in necessary, every other year the full hint is important and every piece has meaning so I don't think this year will be different.

I do want to know if anyone figures out what is at those exact coords. I also think that there is enough in that square that relates to the IR board and can be related to elements of a game the it makes sense that they are coords.

The attachment show the location of the statue based on google street view images, the coord. point to a location that is off screen toward the mini map.